Coldplay win award from music therapy charity

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Coldplay have been awarded ‘Best British Act’ by the 2013 O2 Silver Clef Awards. The ceremony was hosted by the Nordoff-Robbins charity, which uses the proceeds to provide music therapy treatment to ailing individuals.

Why Coldplay were selected seems to simply be a matter of their gargantuan musical footprint. In an interview with Clash Magazine, David Munns, chairman of the Nordoff-Robbins organization, said: “Coldplay are one of the British music industry’s great successes. With over 60 million album sales and five consecutive no.1 albums, I can think of no band better placed to win the Royal Albert Hall Best British Act Award. They have dominated the British music scene for a decade and their music has influenced a generation.”

Munns went on to add: “Since the Silver Clef Awards began 38 years ago, the event has raised over £8 million for Nordoff Robbins, allowing us to transform the lives of many thousands of disadvantaged and vulnerable people with music therapy. But we still have a long way to go to ensure we can deliver our music services to all those who need them.”

This year the organization hopes to raise £500,000 from the awards to fund 20,000 “life-transforming music therapy sessions for children and adults across the UK.”

About receiving the award, frontman Chris Martin remarked: “Nordoff Robbins is an organisation that lies very close to our hearts. They provide life-changing music therapy for thousands of people each year and we’re humbled to collect this award in their honour.”

The band will collect their award on 28 June at the official ceremony, held at the London Hilton on Park Lane.